Sterling Heights fireworks mishap hurts four

Three adults and an 8-year-old girl were injured late Thursday when a canister used to set off fireworks fell causing the projectile to shoot into a neighbor’s garage instead of into the air Sterling Heights police Lt. Luke Riley said.

The incident occurred at 10 p.m. at a residence in the 40100 block of Steel Drive (Franklin Park and Ryan Road area) north of 18 Mile Road in Sterling Heights, Riley said. The girl was taken to Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton Township non-life threatening injuries.

Sterling Heights police added the windows of a car also were blown out in the same incident.

“The man shooting off the fireworks was using a tube and just when he lit it the tube fell over,” Riley said. “The firework shot off into a neighbor’s garage where it struck three adults and the little girl.”

Riley said a second projectile also fired sideways and struck and completely shattered the rear window of a car.

The man shooting off the fireworks was ticketed to setting them off in the street and not on his own property, Riley said.